"I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true."
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and stand-up comedian.
As an actor, his work in the 2004 Ray Charles Biopic Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical or comedy. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Collateral.
He is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart, Intuition (2008), and Best Night of My Life (2010).
Notable credits:
- In Living Color! (1990-94) — Various
- Toys (1992) — Baker
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992-96) — Coach Armstrong
- Moesha (1996-2001) — Woody
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) — Ed
- The Great White Hype (1996) — Hassan El Ruk'n
- 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001) — Damon Whitaker
- The Jamie Foxx Show (1996-2001) — Jamie King
- The Players Club (1998) — Blue
- Any Given Sunday (1999) — Willie Beaman
- Saturday Night Live — As Himself
- Bait (2000) — Alvin Sanders
- Ali (2001) — Drew Bundini Brown
- Chappelle's Show (2003-06) — Black Tony Blair
- Shade (2003) — Larry Jennings
- Collateral (2004) — Max
- Ray (2004) — Ray Charles (Academy Award for Best Actor)
- Stealth (2005) — Lieutenant Henry Purcell
- Jarhead (2005) — Staff Sergeant Sykes
- Miami Vice (2006) — Ricardo Tubbs
- Dreamgirls (2006) — Curtis Taylor, Jr.
- The Kingdom (2007) — Ronald Fleury
- Elmo's Christmas Countdown (2007) — As Himself
- The Soloist (2009) — Nathaniel Ayers
- Law Abiding Citizen (2009) — Nick Rice
- Valentine's Day (2010) — Kelvin Moore
- Due Date (2010) — Darryl
- Rio (2011) — Nico
- Rio 2 (2014)
- Horrible Bosses (2011) — Dean "MF" Jones
- Django Unchained (2012) — Django Freeman
- White House Down (2013) — President James Sawyer
- The Amazing Spider-Man Series and Marvel Cinematic Universe — Maxwell "Max" Dillon / Electro
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) — Django Freeman
- Annie (2014) — William Stacks
- Sleepless (2017) — Vincent Downs
- Baby Driver (2017) — Leon "Bats" Jefferson III
- Beat Shazam (2017-present) — As Himself
- Robin Hood (2018) — Little John
- Just Mercy (2019) — Walter McMillian
- Project Power (2020) — Art Reilly
- Soul (2020) — Joseph "Joe" Gardner
- Day Shift (2022) — Bud Jablonski
- They Cloned Tyrone (2023) — Slick Charles
- Strays (2023) — Bug
Tropes:
- Badass Bystander: In 2016, a drunk driver crashed his car near Foxx's house, and was left trapped in his seat as the wreck caught fire. Jamie (and an off duty EMT) jumped to action to cut him out of his seat and pull him from the car, saving his life.
- Character Title: He plays with these a lot. And by play, it means Playing with a Trope. He also appeared in works where he's not the title character
- Antagonist Title: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was usually subtitled Rise of Electro .
- Protagonist Title: Ray, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story and Django Unchained. Played with in The Jamie Foxx Show which bring us to...
- Justified Title: The Jamie Foxx Show is an The Eponymous Show than a straight out Protagonist Title. However, he plays the main lead and shares his character's first name anyway.
- Secondary Character Title: The Soloist, where Robert Downey Jr. is the lead.
- The Danza: Jamie King in The Jamie Foxx Show.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: His songs are often used in his films, especially around the Turn of the Millennium.
- Dyeing for Your Art: To play Ray Charles from 1949 to 1979, he dropped more than 30 pounds and wore prosthetics over his eyes so that he would actually be blind.
- Genre Savvy: The reason he changed his first name to Jamie is because it is a Gender-Blender Name. In comedy clubs, female comics often perform before the male comics so when a club manager read his name on the list, he would often be moved up on the list of performers.
- Hidden Depths: He knows American Sign Language! Who knew?
- The Host: Of the MTV Music Video Awards in 2001 and the game show Beat Shazam.
- Role Reprise: Portrayed the Spider-Man villain Electro across two film continuities — The Amazing Spider-Man Series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's actually the same Electro, displaced across The Multiverse.
- Shout-Out: His last name in his Stage Name comes from his favorite comedian Redd Foxx.
- Stage Name: His real name is Eric Marlon Bishop.
- Star-Making Role: The titular Ray Charles.
- Those Two Actors: His constant co-stars are Kerry Washington, Gerard Butler, Robert Downey Jr., Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Garner.
- What Could Have Been:
- Auditioned for the Cuba Gooding Jr.. role in Jerry Maguire.
- Had the role of Slim in The Wood, but had to drop out when he got the role of Willie Beamen in Any Given Sunday.
